RedCafe's Top 50 (or 105 or 104 or Syphillis - Duffy fecked up again) Literary Works - Countdown

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Welcome all to the countdown of The Caf's Top 50 Books, Graphic Novels & Literary Works of all time.

**NOTE - I will first quickly countdown 104-58 as I feel there was a fair few books that were voted highly in peoples lists and also got multiple votes that would have missed out on the countdown. Also the vote for the next top 50 will take place in the Desirable Women Countdown**

Thanks to everyone who submitted their list over the last 2 weeks or so. The votes have been counted and double counted and I am now happy to present the countdown.

Lets do this!

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104-89: 12 Points
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens) - @Duffy @Edgar Allan Pillow
American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis) - @ashgabat @Rooney in Dublin
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie) - @harshadgada @Unlikely lad
A Room With a View (E.M. Forster) - @Fbh112
American Pastoral (Philip Roth) - @Silva
At Swim Two-Birds (Flann O'Brien) - @De Selby
Beyond Freedom and Dignity (B.F. Skinner) - @CircusMonkey
East of Eden (John Steinbeck) - @Scrumpet
Faust I (J.W. van Goethe) - @ctp
In The Night Kitchen (Maurice Sendak) - @dumbo
Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami) - @celia
Mars Trilogy (Kim Stanley Robinson) - @Mrs Smoker
Mother Night (Kurt Vonnegut) - @berbatrick
The God Delusion (Richard Dawkins) - @RexHamilton
The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln) - @SteveJ
The Invention of Love (Tom Stoppard) - @harms
 
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88-74: 13 Points
Catcher In The Rye (J.D. Salinger) - @DoubleDinhos @GBBQ
Mahabharata (Vyasa) - @harms @Edgar Allan Pillow
Mistborn (Sanderson) - @ctp @celia
North (Seamus Heaney) - @RexHamilton
Sculpting in Time (Andrei Tarkovsky) - @Silva
Survivor (Chuck Palahniuk) - @ashgabat
The Book of the New Sun (Gene Wolfe) - @Mrs Smoker
The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen) - @Unlikely lad
The Forsyte Saga (John Galsworthy) - @Agent Red
The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) - @SteveJ
The Shadow of the wind (Carlos Ruis Zafon) - @celia @Unlikely lad
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne) - @akash02
Where The Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak) - @dumbo
Winesburg Ohio (Sherwood Anderson) - @DoubleDinhos
Wuthering Heights (Bronte) - @Fbh112 @Agent Red @RexHamilton @GBBQ
 
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73-58: 14/15 Point
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A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess) - @Scrumpet
And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie) - @Golden Nugget
Homage to Catalonia (George Orwell) - @De Selby

Leaves Of Grass (Walt Whitman) - @DoubleDinhos
Notes From Underground (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) - @Silva
Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov) - @harms @berbatrick
Science and Human Behavior (B.F. Skinner) - @CircusMonkey
Sexual Personae (Camille Paglia) - @SteveJ
The Chronicle of Clovis (Saki) - @berbatrick
The End of the Affair (Graham Greene) - @Agent Red
The Forever War (Joe Haldeman) - @Mrs Smoker
The Ladies' Delight / The Ladies' Paradise / Au Bonheur des Dames (Emile Zola) - @celia
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami) - @Invictus
Touching From A Distance (Deborah Curtis) - @Duffy
Watchmen (Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons) - @Invictus @Rooney in Dublin @Duffy @Unlikely lad @GBBQ
 
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Froth on the Daydream / Mood Indigo / Foam of the Daze (Boris Vian) - @celia
Hyperion Cantos (Dan Simmons) - @Mrs Smoker
Journey To The End Of The Night (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) - @Rooney in Dublin
Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs) - @DoubleDinhos
Sabath's Theater (Philip Roth) - @Silva
Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse) - @harshadgada
The Killing Joke (Brian Bolland, Alan Moore) - @Duffy
The Pali Canon (Siddharta Gautama) - @CircusMonkey


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Crash (J.G. Ballard)
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Score: 16
Who Voted: @DoubleDinhos @Selby
Why Is It Here: Submissions Welcome

Iliad (Homer)
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Score: 16
Who Voted: @ctp @Edgar Allan Pillow
Why Is It Here: Submissions Welcome​
 
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Little Women (Louisa Alcott)
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Score: 17
Who Voted: @Fbh112 @celia
Why Is It Here: Submissions Welcome​
 
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Death On The Nile (Agatha Christie)
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Score: 18
Who Voted: @akash02 @Golden Nugget
Why Is It Here: Submissions Welcome

One Piece (Eichiro Oda)
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Score: 18
Who Voted: @Invictus @Golden Nugget
Why Is It Here: Submissions Welcome

The Fall (Albert Camus)
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Score: 18
Who Voted: @harms @Scrumpet
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World War Z (Max Brooks)
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Score: 19
Number 1 Votes: 0
Who Voted: @Neil_Buchanan @harshadgada
Why Is It Here: Submissions Welcome

The Murder Of Roger Akroyd (Agatha Christie)
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Score: 19
Number 1 Votes: 1
Who Voted: @berbatrick @Golden Nugget
Why Is It Here: Submissions Welcome

Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
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Score: 19
Number 1 Votes: 1
Who Voted: @harms @Fbh112
Why Is It Here: Submissions Welcome​
 
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Mystry said:
Looking at the titles it seems like you missed out the word 'on'. Not even knowing the correct title of a book you put on your list? Fecking poser.

And leave those poor Japanese folks alone. And stop making it rain here too.
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Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
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Score: 20
Number 1 Votes: 0
Who Voted: @Duffy @De Selby
Why Is It Here: Submissions Welcome​
 
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King Lear (William Shakespeare)
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Scores: 23
Number 1 Votes: 0
Who Voted:
KL: @Silva @GBBQ
Why Is It Here: Submissions Welcome​
 
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Please no Potter in the top 10. FFS...
 
duffer said:
If the Potter series is considered one book (I think that's what Duffy said would happen to series) then they're nailed on for the top 10. LOTR as well.
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Tolkein deserves it TBF. But Potter.. I are disappoint.. :(

Silva said:
We'll soon be playing a game of "not top 5 FFS" "Just not first for the sake of all that is holy" "that's it, I'm leaving the internet"
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Where do I sign up for that ?
 
duffer said:
I'm not so sure. The Potters got millions of kids (and dopey adults) reading. Deserves a lot of credit for that.
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But.. by the same measure shouldn't Dan Brown, Agatha Christie or Twilight be on the list too ?
 
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